Schist Definition

shĭst
schists
noun
Any of a group of metamorphic rocks containing parallel layers of flaky minerals, as mica or talc, and splitting easily into thin, parallel leaves.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Schist

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schist
Plural:
schists

Origin of Schist

  • French schiste from Latin (lapis) schistos fissile (stone), a kind of iron ore from Greek skhistos split, divisible from skhizein to split skei- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From L schistos lapis, "the stone that is easy to split", from Greek skhizein, "to split".

    From Wiktionary

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